Cabinet of Curiosities

A place to keep things I find interesting - mysteries, myths, witchcraftiness, curiosities, strange and unusual things. Well met! Blessed be!

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[silvaris]

Sakura of Fukuju Temple by Koji Yamauchi

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Forest Lake with Water Lilies in Bloom and Numerous Insects, c.  1869.

Anthonore Christensen, (Danish, 1849 - 1926) 

[lastandir]

From the valley. 130x160px

[gina025]

Meadow sunset

[its-holiday-time]

Villa Hadrian, Roma, nov 23

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[ID: Images of faded black and white mosaics in intricate geometric and floral patterns. ]

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i love this photo because at first you think that she was going to get married but instead her husband to be left her, or something like that. but actually its quite the opposite. i clicked on the source and it brought me to an article explaining the story behind this photo, and shes not crying, shes hungover. her and her husband went to a football game on their wedding day, and got extremely drunk and partied all night. they took the subway home because they couldn’t drive. so no, its not a sad heartbreaking story, its a crazy joyful one. which in my opinion makes the picture even more amazing.

[cardcaptorr]

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE REBLOG THE PIC WITH THIS CAPTION^ AND NOT THE ONE WHERE EVERYONE IS SAD AND ARE LIKE “POOR GIRL GOD BLESS”

[bigolechompers]

poor girls hungover, god bless

[cipheramnesia]

It's pretty funny how much animal camouflage, especially insect camouflage, is a backwards engineered mess of unreadable code, that produces a result which only barely seems effective to human eyes because after millions of years of focus groups, that weird uncanny valley of colors is just the one that most consistently triggers "I am bark" or "I am poisonous" or "I am a larger predator" to potential predators. And it's not like a hundred percent success rate, it's just genetic blobs blindly feeling around for why they're making more genetic blobs instead of being digested into protein by the stomach of a field mouse. It's like "what made you" and the answer is one million years averaged out into some semblance of consistency. It's kinda cool, take a bunch of proteins, give them a million years to work on it, and they can figure out what a snake's head looks like, and build a worm shaped like that. They don't even have eyes, they're just like sculptors and all the non-snake worms get trimmed away by hungry birds.

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[dinchenix]

it's the end of the year and you're walking through fresh snow under the Northern Lights ❄

get the high-res mobile wallpaper in my Winter Pack here